8SS: Chapter 18 Review

What is reform?

• To make changes to bring improvement

• A revival of religious beliefs

• A philosophy emphasizing that people should go beyond logical thinking using their emotions and intuition

• To agree with others' beliefs

What is the Second Great Awakening?

• A revival of religious feeling/belief from 1800s-1840s

• A revival of religious feeling/belief from 1840s-80s

• A philosophy emphasizing going beyond logical thinking using emotions and intuition

• To make changes to bring improvement

What was a difference between the Great Awakening of the 1730s/40s and the Awakening of the 1800s-1840s?

• Preachers said that everyone could gain forgiveness for their sins by doing good deeds

• Preachers said that God had already decided who would be saved.

What is transcendentalism?

• To make changes to improve society

• A revival of religious feeling/belief

• A philosophy emphasizing that people should go beyond logical thinking with emotions/intuition

• To stick with one's own opinions instead of society's

What is intuition?

• Logical Thinking

• Reasoning

• Gut feeling

• Religious beliefs

What did transcendentalists encourage others to do?

• Question society's rules and institutions

• Conform (agree) to society's rules and institutions

What is individualism?

• Conforming to society's beliefs and institutions

• Questioning society's beliefs and institutions to find out what you really believe

What is Dorothea Dix known for?

• The women's movement

• Education reform

• Prison reform

How were mentally ill people treated?

• They were put in institutions for treatment

• They were locked in dirty prison cells and punished

• They were put in jail and ignored

How did Dorothea Dix want to treat the mentally ill?

• She wanted to lock them in prison.

• She wanted to create public asylums to treat them.

• She wanted them to be put in hospitals